Theme Week Emilia-Romagna – Forlì
Friday, 26 October 2012 - 01:25 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Town Hall © Controllore Fiscale
🔊 Listen to this Post
Forlì is the capital of the
province of Forlì-Cesena . It’s the central city of
Romagna .
The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the right of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre. The city hosts many of Italy’s culturally and artistically significant landmarks; It is also notable as the birthplace of painter Melozzo da Forlì, humanist historian Flavio Biondo, physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni.The University Campus of Forlì (part of the University of Bologna) specialises in the teaching of Economics, Engineering, Political Sciences as well as the Advanced school of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT).
Piazza Ordelaffi © Marcheseturchese
Forlì is the location of various buildings of architectural, artistic and historical significance, that include frescoes as part of their decorations. At the heart of the city sits the
Piazza Aurelio Saffi , which includes a statue of Italian politician Aurelio Saffi – who was an important figure in the radical republican current within the Risorgimento movement, headed by Giuseppe Mazzini in the 19th century. The Piazza Saffi also includes the
Abbey of San Mercuriale (named after Saint Mercurialis, a bishop of the city who died in the 5th century), which is the main religious building in the city; and contains the famed
Sepulchre of Barbara Manfredi . Also of note is the
Dominican Church of San Giacomo Apostolo ; better known as the
Church of San Domenico – a late medieval church built in the 13th century in the southern part of the town.
Other medieval buildings include the
Rocca di Ravaldino , a fortress enlarged in the 14th century by the Ordelaffi and Gil de Albornoz, and later in the 15th century.
The city hosts the
Palazzo Hercolani , with decorations dating from the 19th century; containing the artwork
La Beata Vergine del Fuoco con i Santi Mercuriale ,
Pellegrino ,
Marcolino e Valeriano by Italian painter Pompeo Randi. The
Palazzo del Podestà is a civic building which was frescoed by
Adolfo de Carolis in the 20th century.
Here you can find the complete
Overview of all Theme Weeks .
Read more on
City of Forlì and
Wikipedia Forlì . Learn more about the
use of photos . To inform you about latest news most of the city, town or tourism websites offer a newsletter service and/or operate Facebook pages/Twitter accounts. In addition more and more destinations, tourist organizations and cultural institutions offer Apps for your Smart Phone or Tablet, to provide you with a mobile tourist guide (
Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State -
Weather report by weather.com -
Johns Hopkins University & Medicine - Coronavirus Resource Center -
Global Passport Power Rank -
Democracy Index -
GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank -
Global Competitiveness Report -
Corruption Perceptions Index -
Press Freedom Index -
World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index -
UN Human Development Index -
Global Peace Index -
Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index ). If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at
comment@wingsch.net . Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.
VIDEO
Recommended posts:
[caption id="attachment_161206" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Bad Pyrmont Castle © picasaweb.google.com / Hein[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bad Pyrmont is a city in the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont with a population of 22,000. It is located on the River Emmer, about 10 km west of the Weser, and a popular spa resort that gained its reputation as a fashionable place for princely vacations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its large park is among the most spectacular in Germany, with a renowned outdoor palm garden. The baroque castle...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_168511" align="aligncenter" width="590"] El Valle © Smithsonian Institution - Lee Siebert[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Antón is a corregimiento in Antón District, Coclé Province. It is located near the north-western shore of the Gulf of Panama. It is the seat of Antón District. It has a land area of 106.3 square kilometres (41.0 sq mi) and had a population of 12,000. Most of them are mestizos, Chinese or African Americans. For Panamanian standards, the city is quite small, in the center there is a casin...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_226697" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Chaojoker/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day orArmenian Genocide Memorial Day is a public holiday in Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. It was a series of massacres and starvation of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottomans. In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, hundreds of thousands of people wa...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_196614" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © SisterLondon/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London. Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street, it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including a large number of independent fashion boutiques. Streets crossing, or meeting with, Carnaby Street are, from south to north, Beak Street, Broadwick Street, Kingly Court, Ganton Street, Marlborough Court, Lowndes ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_161221" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Aerial view: Saint-Malo on the right, Dinard on the left © Tswgb[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Rance Tidal Power Station is the world's first tidal power station and also the world's second biggest tidal power station. The facility is located on the estuary of the Rance River, in Brittany. Opened on the 26th November 1966, it is currently operated by Électricité de France, and is the second largest tidal power station in the world, in terms of installed capacity...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_153622" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Jost Van Dyke - White Bay © Cemerp/cc-by-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]At roughly 8 square kilometers, and about 3 square miles Jost Van Dyke is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, the northern portion of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Jost Van Dyke lies about 8 km to the northwest of Tortola and 8 km to the north of Saint John. Little Jost Van Dyke lies off its eastern end. ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_219333" align="aligncenter" width="590"] New York Public Library Main Branch and Bank of America Tower in the background © Tdorante10/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Bank of America Tower is a 1,200 ft (365.8 m) skyscraper in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is located at One Bryant Park, on Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets diagonally opposite Bryant Park. The $1 billion project was designed by COOKFOX Architects. Work on the building started in 2004 and it ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_171541" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Clabon Mews © flickr:com - Cristian Bortes/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Chelsea is an affluent area in West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames. Its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road and Chelsea Harbour. Its eastern boundary was once defined by the River Westbourne, which is now in a pipe above Sloane Square tube station. The modern eastern boundary is Chelsea Bridge Road and the lower half o...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_149047" align="aligncenter" width="429"] Gdansk Collage © Michal Slupczewski[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population of over 800,000. Gdańsk itself h...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_148990" align="aligncenter" width="313"] © Tallinn 2011[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Tallinn
Tallinn was appointed in November 2007 together with the Finnish City of Turku to one of the European Capital's of Culture 2011. With the motto "Tales from the sea" numerous cultural events and festivals will be held in 2011, including the "Tallinn Maritime Days", which will bring the city closer to the sea again. About a dozen architectural installations will be built in the city. Since independence, improving air...
[ read more ]
